Record

RefNoMC/4/363
LevelItem
TitleLetter from James C [Cosmo] Melvill, East India House, to Samuel H [Hunter] Christie
Date14 November 1850
DescriptionForwarding a copy of a letter from Captain Elliott to Philip Melvill on his observations for the Magnetic Survey of the Eastern Archipelago with an abstract of the results.

[Enclosure is present, has an extent of 2p and is labelled within the volume as MC/4/363a.]
[Responded to by Charles Richard Weld, assistant secretary, on 30 November 1850.]
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1851.0014
DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1850.0006
RelatedRecordMS/426/439
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA7015Melvill; Sir; James Cosmo (1792 - 1861)1792 - 1861
NA8168Christie; Samuel Hunter (1784 - 1865); mathematician1784 - 1865
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